Trump Signs Executive Order That Will Effectively Ban Use Of TikTok In the U.S.

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President Trump on Thursday invoked his emergency economic powers to impose broad sanctions against TikTok, a move that steps up pressure on the Chinese-owned app to sell its U.S. assets to an American company.

In the order, which takes effect in 45 days, any transactions between TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, and U.S. citizens will be outlawed for national security reasons.

In practice, experts told NPR the order likely will mean the viral video service could no longer receive advertising from American companies and the app could be removed from Apple and Google's app stores.

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For the more than 100 million Americans who have downloaded TikTok, experts say the app may no longer be sent software updates, rendering TikTok unmanageable, and eventually nonfunctional, with time.

"When we talk about sanctions against Russian oligarchs and kleptocrats, well, the sanctions are that no American can do business with them," Stewart Baker, the former general counsel at the National Security Agency, told NPR last month when speculation about the order first began to spread.

Now, that same sanction has been used against TikTok.

In a statement, TikTok says it is "shocked" by the executive order, claiming the Trump administration "paid no attention to facts, dictated terms of an agreement without going through standard legal processes, and tried to insert itself into negotiations between private businesses."

TikTok added that the order "sets a dangerous precedent for the concept of free expression and open markets."

It says all options are being reviewed to make sure the company and TikTok users are treated fairly "if not by the administration, then by the U.S. courts."

In the order, the White House says TikTok captures vast swaths of information from its users, including location data and Internet search history.

TikTok is open about what data it collects, an amount that is on par with what is harvested by apps owned by American tech companies Google, Facebook and Apple.

"While TikTok is being singled out in this executive order, their data collection and sharing practices are fairly standard in the industry," said University of Notre Dame technology professor Kirsten Martin. "In fact, many fitness apps were banned from use in the military for tracking location data, but we did not ban them from all U.S. citizens."

Yet the White House says what makes TikTok distinct is that the app's terms of service state that it can share data with its parent company, ByteDance.

The possibility that it could hand over data to Chinese authorities has officials on edge, as the White House wages an intensifying trade war against China.

"This data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans' personal and proprietary information — potentially allowing China to track the locations of Federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage," the executive order reads.

TikTok has downplayed its ties to Beijing, saying data it captures on U.S. users is stored mostly in Virginia. Officials at TikTok also insist the company has never turned over any data to Chinese authorities, despite the country's broad national powers to request such data from private companies.

A federal class-action lawsuit involving dozens of American families claims an independent security review of TikTok revealed that the app is siphoning data, including the facial profiles of American children, and sending it to Chinese servers, though the suit does not provide evidence any information has ever been transferred to the Chinese Communist Party.

Since the Trump administration began turning up the heat on TikTok, software giant Microsoft has confirmed it is among a handful of companies in early talks to acquire the short-form video service.

For Microsoft, a $1.5 trillion company that has focused its business mostly on corporate clients by selling software and cloud computing services, buying TikTok would be its first major foray into a social media platform popular among young users.

Microsoft already owns game console company Xbox, networking site LinkedIn and messaging service Skype.

Officials at Microsoft say it is examining a TikTok acquisition that would potentially buy TikTok's American, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand services, but officials close to the deal say the final offer may include operations in even more countries.

Trump's executive order comes on the same day Facebook launched a new product Reels, a video-sharing app that mimics TikTok's core features.

TikTok has accused Facebook of introducing a "copycat" service, arguing that the social network is trying to capitalize on the administration's zeal to punish China for its own benefit.

Trump on Thursday also signed an executive order to restrict business between China-based Tencent Holdings, the owner of WeChat, and U.S. citizens.

More than a billion people in China use WeChat, an all-in-one app used for messaging, social media and making mobile payments. It is a popular tool for chatting and transactions among Chinese citizens living in the U.S., but the Trump administration says the app could have a nefarious use by authorities in Beijing.

"Like TikTok, WeChat automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users," Trump's separate executive order reads. "In addition, the application captures the personal and proprietary information of Chinese nationals visiting the United States, thereby allowing the Chinese Communist Party a mechanism for keeping tabs on Chinese citizens who may be enjoying the benefits of a free society for the first time in their lives."

On Thursday, the Senate unanimously passed a bill to ban TikTok on government-issued devices, as the view that the app could pose a national security threat to the U.S. gains new bipartisan support in Washington.

Editor's note: TikTok helps fund NPR content that appears on the social media platform.

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/900019185/trump-signs-executive-order-that-will-effectively-ban-use-of-tiktok-in-the-u-s

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If you spent more time reading other books and news sources instead of cramming xxxxx , maybe you will know what is going on in the world.

Let me help you. Trump could not ban TikTok because lawyers and judges would have had a field day with him.

"Six months ago, TikTok was on the verge of being banned in the United States for its alleged ties to the Chinese government. Since then, the social media platform's ban has been pushed back, postponed, and almost completely forgotten about by some. For the time being, TikTok and its massive community of creators and fans seem to be safe from the power of the U.S. government "

https://screenrant.com/tiktok-us-android-ios-app-ban-update-latest/

An EXECUTIVE ORDER is NOT LAW.

It NEVER became LAW.

Do some more reading.

An EXECUTIVE ORDER is NOT LAW.

It NEVER became LAW.

Do some more reading........

PeaceforNigeria:
If you spent more time reading other books and news sources instead of cramming xxxxx , maybe you will know what is going on in the world.

Let me help you. Trump could not ban TikTok because lawyers and judges would have had a field day with him.

Lol, this is an epic takedown bros

PeaceforNigeria:
If you spent more time reading other books and news sources instead of cramming xxxxx , maybe you will know what is going on in the world.

Let me help you. Trump could not ban TikTok because lawyers and judges would have had a field day with him.

When you are not reading, you are advising others to read. I can figure your age from the way you write. You young ones won't read or calm down to learn yet will have very strong opinions on everything. It is in your generation that someone who has never been married will boldly say he counsels married people on marriage. Please go and read and allow knowledge to grow in you sir.

You could have just read up on Presidential Executive Orders under the presidential system of government. Executive Orders have the force of the law that is why you need a court to annul it just the same way the courts can annul a law passed by the legislature if it contravenes the constitution.
https://www.phe.gov/s3/law/Pages/ExecOrders.aspx

economic powers to impose broad sanctions against TikTok, a move that steps up pressure on the Chinese-owned app to sell its U.S. assets to an American company.

@OP, you know why I don't blame the foreign countries for dabbling into Nigerian affairs?
It is because its leaders are dafts that they keep running to them for help instead of being independent.
Nigeria has all it takes to be very independent but NO, we depend on other countries for toothpicks.
Because of the fear of sanctions, you will see them unban twitter soon.
Let Biafra go and let every region manage himself for better accountability joor.
See how french government was slapped. Leaders will be more careful if every region go because they will be more closer to their people

Vaughanlanrewaj:

When you are not reading, you are advising others to read.

You could have just read up on Presidential Executive Orders under the presidential system of government. Executive Orders have the force of the law that is why you need a court to annul it just the same way the courts can annul a law passed by the legislature if it contravenes the constitution.
https://www.phe.gov/s3/law/Pages/ExecOrders.aspx

I can't keep educating you, its tiring.

"Like both legislative statutes and the regulations promulgated by government agencies, executive orders are subject to judicial review and may be overturned if the orders lack support by statute or the Constitution"

The American constitution guarantees free speech, any order that undermines this is null and void.

Presidential executive orders, once issued, remain in force until they are canceled, revoked, adjudicated unlawful, or expire on their terms. At any time, the president may revoke, modify, or make exceptions from any executive order, whether the order was made by the current president or a predecessor. Typically, a new president reviews in-force executive orders in the first few weeks in office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order

How stupid can you be, comparing actions of a very developed nation to actions of a nation that can't be said to be developing.

Twitter is Job, Business, life of millions of Nigerians and you stupid people always manage to bring in America where everything works into the conversation every damn time Nigeria where nothing works is mentioned.

Tuuueh

CheerfulGiver:
How stupid can you be, comparing actions of a very developed nation to actions of a nation that can't be said to be developing.

Twitter is Job, Business, life of millions of Nigerians and you stupid people always manage to bring in America where everything works into the conversation every damn time Nigeria where nothing works is mentioned.

Tuuueh

The regressive primitive people are the reason why Nigeria is very backward.

Op, Trump couldn't ban tiktok, don't be a Buffoon.

PeaceforNigeria:


I can't keep educating you, its tiring.

"Like both legislative statutes and the regulations promulgated by government agencies, executive orders are subject to judicial review and may be overturned if the orders lack support by statute or the Constitution"

The American constitution guarantees free speech, any order that undermines this is null and void.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order

You still don't get it that what you quoted up there is applicable to even laws from the legislature and you are quoting Wikipedia Don't bother again. Sebi you believe executive order has no force of the law and you think that because it can be reversed in courts with competent jurisdiction, to you, it implies it doesn't have force of the law? Issokay. Go on soun, you will learn las las sir.



Lest I forget, Nigeria didn't ban Twitter yet.

PeaceforNigeria:


The regressive primitive people are the reason why Nigeria is very backward.

Its so sad that some Nigerians receiving stipends from the government are happy that other Nigerian businesses have been negatively impacted by the twitter ban. No humanity. The ban affects igbo, Yoruba, hausa, fulani youths who have been affected by the negativity of the country they were born in and are trying to make a honest living online.

No light, fuel is expensive, crypto is banned, no jobs, no roads, nothing. The avenue they are trying to use to provide for their needs is banned and some apc and pdp paid idiots can't see beyond party lines and tribalism to see that this affects everyone?

Tueeeeh

Trump didn ban USA from using Tiktok.

On the contrary, tiktok users organized to destabilize Trump's campaign

OP please stop posting stories excusing the Twitter ban in this country

You guys know it is not right. And if PDP did the same thing when you guys were in opposition, you would cry and cry and cry.

OP, Buhari did not do well. If he wanted, he could have just boycotted twitter...since they cannot do well by him. Not banning it for the rest of us...

Vaughanlanrewaj:

You still don't get it that what you quoted up there is applicable to even laws from the legislature and you are quoting Wikipedia Don't bother again. Sebi you believe executive order has no force of the law and you think that because it can be reversed in courts with competent jurisdiction, to you, it implies it doesn't have force of the law? Issokay. Go on soun, you will learn las las sir.



Lest I forget, Nigeria didn't ban Twitter yet.

Ask Trump how many of his executives orders were thrown out of court over the past 3 years and you will understand what I mean.

This one and his fellow zombies have bin running around the web which their grandfather (buhari) told them to avoid... Inorder to find justification for their mistakes.

There is something common between buhari and trump... Both are power hungry and extremists in their views. Even with trump tantrums against tiktoks and executive orders, do they ban it? No, because the president have regions which his power ends in every democratic settings.

Even if trump had issued a ban on twitter than time when he was still the president, it won't work cos their system and govt institutions are stronger than what one person or group of persons can toy with.

There you have it.

I know you will still look for something else to backup this govt stupiditi" but be assured you are not talking to the malams up north in a mosque.

Down south, we use our head for reasonings.